The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-04-28
WAYS OF LIVING.
HOW PEOPLE GET ALONG IN THIS
WORLD OF OURS.

An Interesting Pscific Community Founded
by Mutineers-A London Bakers Lot
Life Among the Yakuts-scenes in IN
Egyptian villag, Mexican Manners.
The Norfolk Islanders are descendants
of the crew of the British man-of-war,
the Bounty, who mutinied and abandon
ing the ship settled on Pitcairn Island in
the Pacific ocean. They married native
girls and the island becoming too small
for the community in 1857 they removed
to Norfolk Island. The result has been
a handsome race Of people, temperate
and moral and under church influences,
their minister being ordained by the
Anglican Church. The government is
on the surface patriarchal. Nominally
the island is q dependence of New
South Wales, but in reality 1t is q true
commune, the land being equally divided
among the people. Each couple on
marrying receive twenty-five acres
of land and materials to build q
house. Two or three acres of this
will be cultivated. The prolific soil
readily yields every kind of vegetable
and fruit, from sweet potatoes to the
most marrowy Of peas, and from bananas
to Strawberries. Turkeys, fowls and
pigs are also reared, and stock is run on
the uncultivated acres and on the land
yet unreserved for families. The inhab-
itants raise everything they want for
their own needs, except in the matters of
clothing and tobacco; and the fresh
meat and vegetables with which they
supply whalers or passing steamers fur
nish enough money to procure their sim
pie raiment. At present this system
works very well, but when the rising
generation grows up all the available
land will be disposed of, and some outlet
will be needed for the surplus popula-
tion, now over 400, and rapidly increas-
ing.
AN ENGLISH BAKERS WORK.
Here is the way London baker lives
who is foreman and is considered pros
porous: II rent this two-story six
roomed house for los. ($2 SOY per week
and pay 2s. 1Od. per week taxes. I sublet
two furnished rooms for 6s. week. Ny
pay is 30s. a week, with six four-pound
loaves of bread, three and a-half pounds
of flour, 14d. sack-money and I'D. yeast
money a week, besides 2 guineas from
the miller at Christmas. For this work
I work seventy-four hours week. For
tunately I live near my work, so that
am not forced to get up much before
three o'clock. l eat nothing before be-
ginning my work. At half-past four in
the morning / get breakfast of bread,
butter, milk and sugar taken from
the material given me for breadmaking.
At half-past nine get lunch of the same
material, with perhaps an egg or bit Of
bacon. Dinner is sent from home to me at
| two, and is of meat or fish and potatoes.
never eat with my family at home except
on Sunday. I allow my wife FL ($5) per
week for all housekeeping expenses, in
Guiding rent. From the rest Of my pay,
| I provide Is. Id. per quarter for my
trade society and IS. Sd. per year for
the pension society. Saving Is impossi-
BILE. Sometimes have twenty-five cents
left on Friday night. After thirty-five
years hard work have saved nothing.
I do not know any journeyman baker
who, in his life, has saved $500. When
unable to work they 60 to the poor
house."
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| Not"lthstaholhg temperature rang
ing from fifty to eighty-six degrees be-
low zero, the interior of a Yakuts hut
in Northern Siberia is almost intolera-
bIy close. In going to bed the people
strip to their shirts, which are made of a
thick sort of Russian cloth as heavy as
our canvas. The men and women wear
the same kind of garments, and never
have more than one at a time. When
they undress they get into hunks built in
the side of the house, sometimes a man
his wife and all his children in the same
bunk. They have reindeer skins under
and over them. and curtains of the same
hanging before the hunks. The last man
or woman to undress hangs all the cloth.
ing of the rest out doors over pole that
is kept for the purpose. This is to freeze
the lice. They couldn't live if they didn't
do it. and it has become a national Gus.
tom. The lice gets into the fur and that
ia the only way to get them out By
hanging their clothes over the pole every
nig6t thew can keep reasonably free
from them. but the fur fills up again the
next day.
Ex-pREsrpENr HAYES CHICKENS,
Rutberford r Haves once ru,ed 40
600 OOO neonle. he now rules sixtv chick.
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